Explain all of the scientific advantages or disadvantages that Conflict/ Marxist theory has

As a sociological theory , Marxism , or its more general counterpart Conflict Theory has a number of positive and negative attributes . Born in the midst of the sociological turmoil associated with the German Industrial revolution , it provided an explanation for the social tensions that were apparent at that place and time (Albert , pg . 43 Marxism evolves from an economic theory that divides the population into two groups : those who control the means of production , and those who provide the labor . Those who control the means of production are referred to as capitalists (since

they have the money , or capital , and the laborers are called the proletariat (Albert , pg . 44 ) The sociological aspect of this paradigm is the notion that there is an inevitable conflict between the capitalists and the laborers as it is in reality the laborers who ultimately produce the goods in the economy for which the capitalists get money (Albert , pg . 44 ) The overall constructs of this theory have certain advantages , but they are far outweighed by the disadvantages inherent in the theory

One advantage of the theory of Marxism and the corresponding conflict theory is that it is all-encompassing (Albert , pg . 46 ) The theory can be brought in to explain virtually every major economic and social upheaval in history . Since under conflict theory , war in the form of proletariat revolution is a historical inevitability , all geopolitical conflict can be defined in terms of labor versus capital (Albert , pg 47 ) It would be difficult to cite a historical event...